There is a window downtown where this is burning brightly right now.
It’s a major award.
photo
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Dec 16
This was an unintentional mid-20th century post
Song of the day, which was on the radio when I cranked the car this morning:
And that tune will stick with you in a delightful way.
Saw this on the drive home …
That is an awesome, bipartisan, bumper sticker.
I have Eisenhower buttons, but sadly no Truman examples. You can see more of my campaign buttons here.
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Dec 16
Keep ’em separated
At the vet, picking up the special food our special cat demands, I saw this sign:
I assume these signs are meant to keep them from living together. Or maybe it’s some other joke.
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Dec 16
People, right?
Look, you don’t have to be nice, or even hospitable, like some people are fond of saying. But I’m not asking too much for a little situational awareness. Yes I am, situational awareness has been directly tied to common sense and you can only get that if you’re willing to pay premium prices. I get it.
But still:
The guy stood there, on his phone, for about four minutes. No one else in the restaurant was thirsty, and it wasn’t his concern anyway.
Except for me. I just stood there, watching, waiting, wondering, more and more impressed by his obliviousness. Phones are a too-powerful intoxicant for some people.
Here’s another example today:
This elevator services three floors, you’re not on it for long. How is it that you take off your headband, hang it on the handrail and forget about it by the time you’ve gotten to where you need to be? I don’t bet on anything, but it is even-money that this was another phone-related distraction.
If that thing belonged to the same guy, it would be perfect, but I don’t know that there’s serendipity enough for that sort of thing, an hour and a city block removed from one another.
Six miles after a week of back spasms, 13°.
"I admire your dedication," a guy said at the end of my run.
"That's the wrong word," I said. pic.twitter.com/VUFfBGxTBB
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) December 14, 2016
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Dec 16
Winter is here
Not to worry, we’ve stocked up on all of the important French Toast making ingredients.
We go now to our reporter in the field, Ernie Pyle, tell us how it is looking from where you are:
Lets get our bottom-of-the-hour weather update, Ernie? @IUMediaSchool @IUBloomington pic.twitter.com/vVPiCKBAtR
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) December 13, 2016
We got a quarter-of-an-inch of snow today. The record for the day, according to the National Weather Service, was three-quarters of an inch, in 2000. Ernie’s statue was not there on that day for a comparison photo.
